Imagine that you are in a beauty pageant and the emcee says, “It was reported that obesity costs the U.S. healthcare system $147 billion a year.  How will you solve this problem?”

Well, you must be surprised by the news and is still pondering for an answer.  Good thing you’re not in the actual pageant.  However, here’s an easier question for you: Do you think Obama’s intervention for this matter would make a winning answer?  Read on.

It has been reported that the United States government is throwing a bunch of money at the problem.  One official said that the amount of cash to be doled out to stop obesity is “significant.”  Some people consider this as a fighting-fire-with-fire situation.

This is all part of President Obama’s economic stimulus package, which will also include $2.5 trillion overall of the healthcare industry, and looks to improve programs that provide schools with more fruits and vegetables, and to encourage grocery stores to sell fresh produce in low-income communities.

Physical education is on the docket too, such as encouraging walking, biking and public transportation systems that shuttle people to activities, for example a Californian program which buses girls to dance lessons.

The aforementioned plans sound good, but the budget to carry them out doesn’t sound that good at all.  How feasible are these ideas?  How come they are already applying it to the entire United States without at least doing a research on a couple of states with the highest number of obese people?  It’s going to be a very risky damage control, Mr. President.